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... Give us vision to see a better way ; give us strength to carry our resolutions into actions . O , may life seem real , may work be to us a constant joy . Renew our strength from day to day , quicken and deepen our faith , enrich our ...
... Give us vision to see a better way ; give us strength to carry our resolutions into actions . O , may life seem real , may work be to us a constant joy . Renew our strength from day to day , quicken and deepen our faith , enrich our ...
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... Give to us , we pray , the courage and cheer of perfect faith , and teach us all , O God , in this new year to do and love Thy holy will that we may have the freedom of truth , the peace of obedience , and the joy of loving Thee ...
... Give to us , we pray , the courage and cheer of perfect faith , and teach us all , O God , in this new year to do and love Thy holy will that we may have the freedom of truth , the peace of obedience , and the joy of loving Thee ...
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... give the sins : and whatever Thou canst find herein of honest service , receive it with our love . We thank Thee for perpetual discontent and that Thou ever shinest before us with both hope and promise of better things to come . Take ...
... give the sins : and whatever Thou canst find herein of honest service , receive it with our love . We thank Thee for perpetual discontent and that Thou ever shinest before us with both hope and promise of better things to come . Take ...
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... give ear unto our prayer . We are Thy flowers , Thy skies , Thy seas , always and gladly Thine . We laud Thy holy name that Thou art so set into our lives and that Thou hast set Thy heart upon our lives . We are precious in Thy sight ...
... give ear unto our prayer . We are Thy flowers , Thy skies , Thy seas , always and gladly Thine . We laud Thy holy name that Thou art so set into our lives and that Thou hast set Thy heart upon our lives . We are precious in Thy sight ...
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... Give us hope for the causes and the men that seem most hopeless and may we never cease our toil in their behalf . Grant that we may never be quite hopeless concerning ourselves whatever our ill desert . We have attempted little and ...
... Give us hope for the causes and the men that seem most hopeless and may we never cease our toil in their behalf . Grant that we may never be quite hopeless concerning ourselves whatever our ill desert . We have attempted little and ...
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abide ALICE CARY Amen beauty blessed bring burden Charles Charles F cheer child Christ clouds courage darkness divine dreams duty earth EDWARD ROWLAND SILL ELLA WHEELER WILCOX eternal everlasting eyes faith fear feel Forgive GEORGE GEORGE L gift give glad glory God's grace Grant happy heart heaven Heavenly Father Help HENRY VAN Dyke HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW HENRY WARD BEECHER hope hour infinite Jesus John JOHN KENDRICK BANGS life's light lives look Lord MARGARET Deland mind morning never night ourselves patient PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR perfect PERIN pray Thee prayer quiet refreshed rejoice rest Robert ROBERT LOVEMAN shadows shine sing sleep smile song sorrow soul spirit stars storm strength sweet tasks thank Thee Thine things Thou art Thou dost Thou wilt thought Thy children Thy hand Thy love Thy presence Thyself toil tomorrow tonight trust in Thee truth unto weary William wind
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Page 254 - Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 329 - RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page xxv - And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid ; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
Page 204 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.
Page 165 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 85 - He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who...
Page 288 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Page 333 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Page 75 - O holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before ! Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more.
Page 119 - Some murmur when their sky is clear, And wholly bright to view, If one small speck of dark appear In their great heaven of blue. And some with thankful love are filled, If but one streak of light, One ray of God's good mercy, gild The darkness of their night.